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Originally Posted by marketsmart
the issues with manufacturing jobs has more to do with China than tax breaks..
manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the US until the govt raises taxes on imports or people in the US become willing to work for $2 an hour...
regardless of who is in the white house next term, this country is economically fucked..
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At the rate wages and raw materials are increasing in China by 2015 it will be an equal playing field. The manufacturers that are established and ready are the ones that will grow the fastest and hire people sooner. I am seeing it happen now. We have many customers that left us and went to China that realize the honeymoon is over. China was tolerable when their costs were cheap. The quality still is poor, dealing with someone that doesn't speak your language and is in a time zone 11 hours different has not gotten any easier.
If anything positive has come out of this it would be the fact that competing with China has taught US manufacturers that you can't ever get comfortable. We make better products faster than we ever have.